Janet Muir has been a civil servant for 30 years and since 2005 has also volunteered in the Britannia Panopticon Music Hall in Glasgow, the oldest music hall in the world where Stan Laurel made his debut, and currently co-ordinates its events programme. Born in 1963 as part of a military family, she has lived in Singapore, Germany, England and the Highlands before settling in Glasgow in 1982. A chance remark about a little-known ancestor led her on a voyage of discovery, to her first book, Masks and Faces: the Life and Career of Harry Braham, which developed from winning a writing competition in 2011.
